July 2009: Grinning, wolfing, rolling and puking! :)

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Hi thought I'd take the bull by the horns and start a new thread. Hope the weaning was covert enough! Fire away!

Hi all
Patchy - no shaking of the baby here that I have noticed. Glad you're getting more sleep. Hetty was up 4 times on Saturday night which is unheard of since she was a couple of weeks old so I've had a very brief taste of everyone elses sleepless nights - not nice.
Having a bit of a shite day. Got my first SMP wage slip yesterday and the pension deductions appear to be fucked up incorrect. So I've been too-ing and fro-ing with HR baby crying on the bed neglected whilst I piss about crunching numbers and sending emails. Then it would seem that everyone at work has been paid a surprise bonus this month (lovely!) - all except for the ladies on Mat Leave as apparently we "Don't Qualify" - heaven only knows why so DP is trying to get to the bottom of that too. Could really do without it to be honest at the moment. WHy do HR departments always make you feel like you're trying to con the company out of money??!?!?? Anyway had a nice visit this afternoon with an old school friend which brightened us up a bit.
baby - hope things are better in you house - you too Missp and Gillyan.
Anyone else seem to spend half their time promising to be "A better Mummy tomorrow"?? I just seem to be crap at it all at the moment - mothering, housework, paperwork, blah blah blah. (I'd bin the housework altogether but if the place gets too mucky then my asthma gets bad).

sorry only skim read a few posts. Please help. having a trauma!

dd2 has a chest infection and thus is refusing to bf on one side. Is totally insane. She'll feed other side no problem. Tried rugby balling her but she's not fooled. Spent last feed in tears as she screamed and dd1 looks on in dismay as her mother cracks up!

Hi guys, Summer is getting better now thanks!

Sorry for the mastitis sufferers!

Hope everyone and their babs are okay.

jetli I am constantly promising myself I'll be a better Mummy tomorrow. I feel so bad on Grace the older one becuase I just dodn't have time to do much of anything with her, my friends help out but I never get to do stuff with her. My mum is having Summe ron Friday all afternoon so I can pick Grace up from nursery at 12 then spend the rest of the day with her, might take her swimming or something.

weather I know places have had it much worse thsn me ( Cheshire) but it's been well bad here, the bloody roads were running the other day! Anyone in a really bad area?? Must be terrible!

highchair Going to buy Summer one this week cos feeding her in her bouncer is back breaking! Going to het a Chicco pink reclining one from motercare i think.

ali bill for some reason will only feed on left side, the only way i can get him to feed from other side is when he's starting to doze throught he feed i whip my left boob out and twist my body quickly and put my right in to his mouth, its uncomfortable but its the only way i can do it! saying that my boobies are big and saggy enough to twist them in all directions and tuck them in the waist of my knickers! i've found at night though it easier as i guess he cant see, as i dont put light on, which boob is looming in when feeding him lieing down so will take the right one then!

so sorry for your dd, hope this helps! x x

sorry thats meant to say 'doze through the the feed'

ali have you tried just pumping from that side? If you can't trick her into nursing on that side right now, just pump so you dont get backed up. Maybe the lay down nursing might work??

Patchy Marco does the quivering thing too!! Makes me very nervous! Its just as he is falling asleep or when he is coming out of a deep sleep. His hands start shaking and his body does a quiver. Glad I'm not the only one going through this. My DD2 did this in-utero during the last few weeks of pregnancy and I just about had a fit thinking she was having seizures in there. Then when she was born, she did the same shaking thing for a good month. My doc said it was just due to immature nerves and that it would sort itself out as baby grows.

shopping Had the nerve to take the 2 babies out Christmas shopping today. Of course, it was pouring rain. Then when I went to open my double stroller, the thing jammed and I ended up snapping the plastic lock. Very pissed off at this. Of course the one time the thing jams, its pouring rain, and I have a hood on which is flopping in my face so I cant see, and I cant tell where the darn thing is jammed, so I just give it a yank and broken pieces fly everywhere! UGH!! Now I have to see if I can replace the part. At least the rest of the experience was better. Gave DD2 popcorn and she was as good as gold. No melt-downs or crying fits. Marco slept for most of the time. Of course the nursing rooms were all packed so I had to make do sitting on a public bench in the middle of the mall! Oh well... any dignity I had left (with wobbly bits hanging out everywhere) was gone a few pregnancies ago .

ali when alfie had a ear infection he did that i think it hurt to lie on that side he stopped when anti bs kicked in. What about lyingdown? On phone lying feeding in bed so cant be bothered to type on tiny key pad so just a hi to all

Oh Ali - sounds wretched - like Queenfee, ear infection sprang to my mind. Does lying down to feed help at all? I can sort of feed with me and Hetty lying on one side, both boobs with a bit of maneuvering. I sort of loom over her a bit to give her the opposite boob. I adopt this position when there is something particularly gripping on the TV and I don't want to turn my back to it

Ali I hope that she is better today, poor little love

Think I have dh's man flu, feeling really crappy today. Poor me!

help more feeding related trauma. was in town briefly posting a parcel for dh when dd2 started screaming blue murder for a feed. Managed to bob into boots but she was so worked up that she refused a feed from either side. Good job I wasn't on the street or people would have thought I was murdering her! as it was it was pretty bad. the yellimg was ear piercing (we were hiding in that little chat room they have) Abandonned the plan and abandonned the shopping and came home where, in the comfort of her room she happily fed from the side she prefers but screamed when I put right boob near her

leddownfeeding tried this with dd1 and was a total disaster as she got really windy. Also am rather small in the boob dep so the manouvering is quite tricky. have a friend who's a bf counsellor so sent her a msg on facebook and she says she'll get back to me.

schoolopenday off to this this afternoon (with sick baby and tired dd1 in tow. Other appt time (it's at 2.30) was 6.30. fat chance of getting there as dh doesn't make it home till 7 alot. anyone been to one of thse things? Are they useful? Will let you know how it goes

birthays dh successfully forgot the send his dad a birthday card (again) and I forgot cos the kids have been ill. Am I the only one who has to remember not only my family b'days but dh/dp's too? I suspect not!

sickpeople boohiss to colds and flu! Get better soon all of you

ali have things gotten better? Hope so..

ali how did the open day go? They have open days now rather than parents evening which I find better as I get a better feel for what they are doing in class. It also gives the kids chance to show things to you. They take loads of photos and make diary entries too so it feels much more personal than just speaking to a tired teacher at the nd of the day. Hope things are going a bit better for you. My DD went through a stage where she would only feed in a drk room but it didn't last long.

xmas only 4 pressies left to buy whoop

On the down side my DH has just been told the whole company has to reapply for their jobs as they are making redundancies all round He is really stressed about it so things a bit tense here at the moment.

QueenFee Hope things works out for your DH. What a lousy time of year to be telling employees their jobs may be redundant!

sickness So everytime I feel like things are turning a corner, the sickness hits again! Marco has been fighting the sniffles for at least a month now. Well, last night he started running a temp and he has been coughing a lot more. He doesn't feed well since he cant breathe, and is generally miserable. His poo has turned green (which I am told is from consuming too much fore milk and not enough hind milk), so I have been making extra sure he nurses on one side for some time. Well, this morning, he did beautifully. Nursed til the boob was empty, burped, and then did the same on the other side. Just as I was about to pull him off to burp (we are laying down) he looks up at me and projectile vomits!! I cant believe what came out of that little body!! My bed and pillow and nightie were SOAKED!! Its 5:30am and I have to strip the bed down to the mattress (which also did not escape the torrent of fluid)! It was like a tidal wave! It took 3 towels to soak up the mattress. Sigh... so much for a restful sleep... not to mention a WONDERFUL start to my day! All the little bugger could do is laugh and coo while DH and I were cleaning up the mess!! Good thing he is so cute, or I would have sent him back ages ago!

ali have been where you were with a screaming DC and having to abandon plans. It used to embarrass me imagining what others were thinking... but not anymore! After 4 you develope a thick skin and just do what you need to. About a month ago, DH and i were in a department store with the 2 babies. We went looking for shoes for DD2 (who has a serious shoe fetish!). When not a single pair could be found in her size, did she not scream blue murder. Which of course woke up Marco who also started to scream. We abandoned all items in our shopping cart and ran out of the store so fast your head would spin! The looks we got from the screaming were priceless (and quite funny in hindsight).

How are all the other DCs feeling???

Gosh Baby you could be talking about Noah there. He's been sniffly for ages too and not sleeping well. He started with a little cough a few days ago then yesterday he started coughing and vomiting and he's got a slight temp this morning. His cheeks are very red though so it could be teething. He projectile vomited this morning, luckily not all over the bed but he did get me all down my leg.

Dh has gone out to get more calpol, nuerofen and bonjela. Lots of cuddles are instore for today i suspect. Every time he woke up in the night (which was a lot ) he was crying/screaming so i ended up bringing him downstairs and i hardly slept.

Hope all the other babies and mummies are better. He's crying again now

Meant to say hope your dh's job is ok Queenfee. My dh's job has been hanging in the balance for well over a year now. The company are making redundancies all the time but he has missed out so far. He has actually applied for voluntary redundancy but he has been there nearly 30 year so they won't give him it. The company are falling apart though and he just wants to get out of there now cos they are been treated like sh*t. Bad time of year though

baby and phoenix hope the LO's are on the mend.

QF fingers x'd the job will be safe. My DH was made redundant this time last year and has been freelancing ever since. It has not been great but we have learned to live very lean. Good luck, it is hard especially during the holidays.....

Jetli Totally know where you are coming from; every day I want to be a better mother (and a better wife). It is hard. I do think we put such pressure on ourselves to be the best at it all and some days, things have got to give.

On this positive note I am off to drink more coffee.

feeding vastly improved now antibiotics have kicked in. chest is clearing and wheezing has stopped. Hurray!

redundancies my mum has been told her work is closing so she'll be out of a job in the next 12 months. DH's company are needing to make cuts and have been leaning on him quite heavily with heavy handed disciplinary measures due to his depression but we've survived so far. Hope things work out ok for you QF.

baby I know I shouldn't have laughed but did have a chuckle at your vomiting story! DD1 did it al the time including one memorable one all the way up the stairs! dd2 doesn't seem to get sick which is a bonus but then she has lots of little feeds rather than a few massive feeds so maybe that makes a difference.

jetli have been promising myself to be better mother and wife every night... so far it aint happening! Light at he end of one tunnel was that dd2 seems better now and shock I had a fun day with the the other day rather than the usual torrent of whining. Made me very happy. I hadn't realised how much a missed my sunny little girl till she went AWOL!

phoenix hope Noah gets better soon x

I had a thought earlier so have just been doing a bit of searching and found this:

'By hobnob57 Tue 24-Nov-09 15:09:43
Well Helllooooooo!

Sorry I've been away for a while, but little Isla has been keeping me busy grin. I haven't read any posts since Sunday, but I hope that you are all well and would like to reassure you that no pregnancy can last forever - not even mine!!

I can't even remember what I last posted, but ended up in hospital for monitoring after my waters broke in the bath on Sunday evening. I was in a foul mood because they only called me in because of my dates and had muttered on the phone about induction, which I failed to see the point of since surely most labours involve waters breaking at some point? Anyway, thankfully it never came to that.

I got put on the monitor and discovered that DD2 was in distress and got whisked through to labour ward at speed with intent for assessment for c-section. To cut a long story short (I'll post fully on the other thread), it turns out I was 8cm dilated (they couldn't understand it since my contractions hadn't been more frequent than 10-20mins apart before waters breaking, and 5-6 mins after that) and by the time I had been given a spinal and was in theatre I was fully dilated so DD2 was born with ventouse to turn her and forceps to yank her out (she was still very high at station '0') at 10 to midnight. 10 mins off being a saggitarius like the rest of us! Does that mean potential conflict in the family? The obsteatrician was a parent from school - a bit odd but kind of reassuring that they would probably take extra care smile.

We got home yesterday afternoon and have been trying to keep track of texts and phone calls since - oh, and sleep too. So this is me catching up online whilst both DDs are having naps. Isla seems to be feeding well from what I can tell, and the MW was happy to leave seeing her 'till Friday when she'll get weighed and heel pricked, etc.

I'm feeling SO much better than I did after DD's birth - even stitches and episiotomy don't compare to a c-section scar, so my full sympathies lie with those who have that to contend with this time around. Even the birth itself was calm and enjoyable (?!) once the spinal was in. I was so off my face with gas and air with DD1 that I don't remember a lot of it.

SO, I got my VBAC of sorts and am loving having a snuggly baby to look after. DD1 isn't that sure, but will come round eventually I think. Will go and catch up and then post the full details if all is still quiet....

It's worth the wait, you'll see grin'

Congratulations Hobnob

Nice one hobnob!

Fantastic news, made me smile Hobnob! Clever you Phoenix xxxx

Oh fab news about hobnob! Lovely name

Good spot Phoenix

Hooray for hobnob